Society & Culture - 9 July 2007

do you guys think that language barriers is a caused of the lack of education? why some bilingual students don't do well in school?

2007-07-09 13:39:32 · 3 answers · asked by shorty 1 in Languages

What are the 7 deadliest sins?
and can you give mea defenition for all of them?
Thanks

2007-07-09 13:38:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

With Noah, why didn't he simply put those he wanted into suspended animation, clean the slate and replace them?

Or in the End Times simply teleport up the people he wants and put the damned in Hell? Why the need for the 4 Horsemen etc?

If your're all loving but feel a need to damn people anyways why cause them to suffer, just teleport them to Hell and get on with it.

2007-07-09 13:38:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It just doesn't make sense.

2007-07-09 13:37:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If yes, than OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

"For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death."
-Exodus 31:15

Im gonna ask my boss if i can get overtime on saturdays. If im gonna be put to death than i should at least make some extra money for my funeral.

2007-07-09 13:35:21 · 13 answers · asked by SwimBuddy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

By sexual immorality i mean homosexualality, bisexualality, etc..

2007-07-09 13:34:11 · 23 answers · asked by Titus M 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Before anyone gets all huffy, I DID ask this in the right section. But I'm also asking it here for my own reasons.

2007-07-09 13:33:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I see the religious and atheist as standing in the ditch on both sides of a road scared to leave the safety of it.

I don't claim to be an Agnostic but I'd think your like me. The type that takes chances and plays in traffic, living everyday as if it's your last.

Looking forward to what's around the next corner or the next page in a book, a lifetime if learning everything you can. Open minded individual thinker to an extreme.

I can see where everyone else can be like this to certain degrees but not every minute of their life's.

Is this how Agnostics are or should be?
If so I don't think it's right your compared to athiest because your nothing like them.

2007-07-09 13:32:36 · 9 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-09 13:31:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Some people say fairies are real.....I know I do! Are there any fellow beleivers out there out who have seen fairies? I really need to know how to see them, any tips for spotting fairies?

2007-07-09 13:31:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

i know some of you will say that without god the world would be a horrible place,but can you really argue the fact that most wars in the world (all through history)have been religious wars

2007-07-09 13:30:58 · 19 answers · asked by kevlar1 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If one of the 10 Commandments is "Thou shalt not kill," then how come it was okay for the Christians to murder thousands during the crusades?

2007-07-09 13:30:43 · 13 answers · asked by kglenn 1 in Religion & Spirituality

As some of you have noticed, I am approaching a point where I will be able to move on with my life and find an appropriate place for my grief.

I find these days that I smile and laugh easier, that I anticipate things in the near future and that I deal with the minor disasters that have plagued me recently.

In other words, I am living.

But I find that every time I smile and laugh I am also feeling guilty.

I never thought that I'd survive the loss of my son. I never wanted to go on without him and figured eventually I'd join him.

Now I find that the idea of moving forward is conflicting with the need to cherish the memory of my son.

It feels like my being happy is saying that my son wasn't my world, that he wasn't important to me. That I can live without him.

I know I'm supposed to. But he -was- my world.

I don't want to let go, but I must if I am to live. But if I live, how does that not devalue him?

Your wisdom is earnestly sought.

2007-07-09 13:27:04 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have some questions on how to dress while attending the Church. Are you expected to dress casually, formally, or somewhere in between? How short can a skirt be without it being offensive? What is considered inappropriate? Can a female wear a tie without freaking out members of the Church? What would be considered modest makeup? What do you normally wear?

2007-07-09 13:26:43 · 17 answers · asked by little b 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Boy,hypocritical or what? I run a question asking how atheists feel about Christians United for Israel and fundie support for Israel generally. All the atheists answer they have no problem with any of that. Then I post another asking why they support israel - and spending 3/4 of our foreign aid on it - and they all demand to know my "source" - in other words,where on earth I might have gotten the idea they support the Israeli government... Um...the responses from the atheists to the first question perchance?
I've been trying for months to find out whether or not atheists support israel or a free Palestine; if so,why; if not,why not. Can't you people give a straight reply to anything?

2007-07-09 13:22:18 · 22 answers · asked by Galahad 7 in Religion & Spirituality

As a firm believer in God, I do understand that it is very abstract and hard to believe at times. My question to you is this: whether theist or atheist, you must believe that in the beginning, something existed. Whether matter in some primitive state or God. Given the extremely delicate nature of our bodies (especially things like our emotions & creativity) and the perfect balance of all things in our universe, is it really easier to believe that everything on our planet and in our universe was created by chance and not a Creator?

2007-07-09 13:20:59 · 26 answers · asked by Bubby 2 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems stupid that an 'all-loving' god sets deadlines.

2007-07-09 13:19:54 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What do you think about these sites, and the Jewish belief system. Do you find it strange that their beliefs about God are so different from christianity?

What are your thoughts about them saying that Jesus didn't fulfill the prophecies of the Messiah as written over a thousand years before Jesus was born? I'll leave this question open for a few days so you can do your own research into the belief.

http://home.att.net/~fiddlerzvi/j4j_no.html
http://www.virtualyeshiva.com/counter-index.html
http://www.messiahtruth.com/response.html#education

All are encouraged to answer, but I actually want an honest discussion about the topic and not flippant off-the-cuff remarks or simple bible-thumping. I want reasoning. I wish this was an open discussion forum, but it isn't so I have to make due with what it is. Thanks in advance.

2007-07-09 13:17:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've noticed when we in the uk ask a question, sometimes our expressions seem to be misunderstood. Amongst the answers you see people ask "what does that mean" So I think it would be a good idea if we all swapped an expression to share with others.
My contribution is from the uk.
A minger or minging is something or someone not very attractive.
Bangers can be sausages or fireworks
F*gg*t is a kind of meatball made from liver
F*g is a slang term for a cigarette
I believe these last two items are offensive in the States, so I hope I have not caused offence. They are very innocent words in the uk and the reason I thought of this question in the first place.
Thanks for taking part in this one, I'm looking forward to learning something new. x
btw, when I previewed this q it wouldn't accept those two f words, I had to remove the vowels, so this tells me it must be offensive somewhere!! so I'm sorry

2007-07-09 13:15:52 · 17 answers · asked by ? 5 in Senior Citizens

I have some background in Santeria but i need some one to help me learn more in New York, NY Thanks!

2007-07-09 13:15:12 · 9 answers · asked by essio16 1 in Religion & Spirituality

If a worm hole can suck the you in and stratch you out and crush you, why do people think that you can go through a worm hole and make it from point a to point b in half the time? I just don't get it

2007-07-09 13:12:56 · 9 answers · asked by Queen_of_Nice 2 in Mythology & Folklore

Some people just don't understand. Flipping through channels for the most part all you see is white people, so why complain? Some people even go so far that they say that there should also be a WET. There are a couple of those, they're just cleleverly masked as CMT (there are black country singers and I have yet to see some on there), VHI (for the most part, especially when it comes to videos) and MTV ( which didn't start playing urban music until BET came around, and most of those videos are showed on MTV2.

2007-07-09 13:10:22 · 20 answers · asked by {*Kiterya A.k.A Ms Caramel*} 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-09 13:09:56 · 2 answers · asked by citizer 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I was reading in revelations where it says that darkness was poured out upon the seat of the beast . In Greek an alternate translation is mind blindness.

I won't to know which nation is the most blinded so i can see where the seat of the beast is. I personally think that Americans are the most blinded people

2007-07-09 13:09:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

a) person
b) christian/any other religion
c)hetero/gay/bisexual/any other
d)American/any other nationality
e) man/woman
f) any other label

2007-07-09 13:08:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am curious about this, hell has been thought of as being hot and below ground. What I'm wondering is what society or culture first came up with this and if possible, I'm curious as to why they thought so.

Logically, it makes sense that if you think hell is below ground, it would be hot, if you assume that the core of the earth is a big bunch of molten rock. I'm wondering if the idea that hell was hot and below ground came around before or after it was first theorized that the earth was filled with something hot.

Many myths come around based on things that were actually seen (dragons eating the moon = eclipse, thunder = thor's hammer, etc). So which came first, hell is below us and hot, or the middle of the earth is hot, thus, hell is hot. And which civilization is responsible for that kind of thinking? Thanks!

2007-07-09 13:07:52 · 5 answers · asked by uncreative_name_man 1 in Mythology & Folklore

I'm happy. I'm comfortable with who I am and how I treat others. If I'm wrong in my belief that there is no afterlife, I'm willing to accept the consequences of my beliefs. So . . . why would I need God in my life?

2007-07-09 13:07:04 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-09 13:06:44 · 31 answers · asked by angel 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Okay, you doggoned skeptics and unbelievers and atheists, stop torturing the poor Fundies. Don't you realize that this nonsense they embrace is, for many of them, maybe most, just about all they've got? Otherwise, what's left for a Fundy guy but doing things privately in his bathroom that I really don't want to think about, his addiction to Internet porn, his wish that a girl would, at long last, go out with them, his disturbing dreams about gay sex, his surfing the Internet for Holocaust deniers, proof that evolution never happened, that the Arctic ice is not melting, and, bless his horny heart, for Sally Sue's cell phone number? I want all of you atheists to cut it out! Sure, the 'Rapture' is yet another piece of fiction, but for a Fundy boy, it's his chance to be somebody, to take a seat beside his mythical god, along with several billion others, and to fly up to Heaven, wherever the heck it may be. Don't harass them--pity the pathetic little buggers.

2007-07-09 13:06:32 · 18 answers · asked by Yank 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I know a person who considers himself a devout christian. Goes to church, very devoted on Sunday, prays to God. But this guy is a sleazeball. Tries to hit on all the cute girls at work, is having a sex-based relationship with a divorced woman with 2 kids; and is STILL looking for more girls to have fun with. He told me he basically will have sex with any girl if she's willing. He's even using church as a venue to try to meet and date more women. Once he was going to skip my bday party that was set up on Sat just so he could sleep with this one girl. I asked him why not Sunday he goes: "I can't have sex with this girl on Sunday cuz it's God's day and I can't do that". Would you consider this a fake christian? I've called him that once I guess he got a little mad I think it's very true. He knows what he's doing is wrong in the eyes of God yet he does it. How can you say this man is a good christian as he so claim?

2007-07-09 13:03:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality